Paul Taylor <[email protected]> writes:

> HI, I use derby in embedded mode, I let the user specify a maxmium
> size for the derby database files, my program monitors this and if it
> goes over the size I use SQL to delete records that are no longer
> necessary in the hope of shrinking the database files size, but it
> doesn't, how can I force Derby to shrink back down ?

Hi Paul,

The database files won't shrink unless you compress the tables.

http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.6/ref/rrefaltertablecompress.html
http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.6/ref/rrefproceduresinplacecompress.html

Hope this helps,

-- 
Knut Anders

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